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Data leaks are extremely prominent in the cyber world due to lack of proper or adequate security implementation. Securing databases is an essential practice to…
The Japan-based confectionary firm Morinaga has recently disclosed a security breach exposing the personal data…Japanese Confectionary Morinaga Disclosed Data …
Misconfigured databases have long been a reason for exposing sensitive data. This time, however, the…Android Apps Leaked 100+ Million Users' Data Due To Miscon…
The cybercrime syndicate behind Babuk ransomware has leaked more personal files belonging to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) after negotiations with t…
Right after Facebook's data leak incident that affected 533 million people, another data dump has…Following Facebook, Data Of 500+ Million LinkedIn Users Put F…
Researchers have found criminal hackers employing a new technique to steal data. This server-side data…Hackers Exploit Telegram API For Server-Side Data Exfilt…
Data encryption has never been more important. New data protection and privacy regulations, such as GDPR, mean that companies storing unencrypted customer info…
British low-cost airline EasyJet today admitted that the company has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, which it labeled "highly sophisticated," exposing email a…
The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that expos…
Data breaches are expensive. A company that suffers a data breach will spend about $4 million to recover lost informationData Breaches That Occurred in 2019 an…
Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.Here we examine the top five places in 2…
Ecuador officials have arrested the general manager of IT consulting firm Novaestrat after the personal details of almost the entire population of the Republic…
Vanderbilt University warns it is responding to a cyberattack claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which claims to have encrypted the university's databases an…
An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security …
Lee Trewhela reports: The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) has admitted a huge data breach has led to many affected staff experiencing “significant distre…
There’s yet another update in the Coupang data breach case. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net of the incident, enforcement actions, and Coupang’s objection…
Mara Sugue reports: Lab 1 has published a report analysing 328 million files from 2,089 datasets exposed after cyber attacks. It found that the median breach n…
Maddie Baker reports: “Cybersecurity insurance normally covers compensation for costs arising from data breaches such as hacking, internally caused cyber leaks…
Jack Krumm reports: We’re learning more about a major data privacy breach and the tens of thousands of people nationwide who could be affected. CSX, one of the…
A vulnerabilitiy was discovered in git-annex, a tool to manage large files with git, without storing the file contents in git, which could result in data exfil…
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers.…
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal in…
Abbye Alexander, Esq., Henry Norwood, Esq., and Emily Taing, Esq. of Kaufman Dolowich LLP write: Recent caselaw suggests a shift in how courts analyze healthca…
UA News reports: In Moldova, the personal data of approximately 750,000 people may have been stolen following a cyberattack on government digital services. Pri…